I don't think anything quite can come on par with the Black Swan Pas de Deux. One day, I WILL dance this and I WILL learn it and I would so want to perform it. That's a dream, that I wish would come true. I think this goes down as not a goal but as a wish that I want to come to fulfil. I sing this tune day and night, in the car, in the shower, when I'm dancing =D
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Showing posts with label Swan Lake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Swan Lake. Show all posts
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
the swans - both evil and good
There was a story:
A prince, heir to a great kingdom must declare a wife at a ball held in his honour on his birthday. In despair at not being able to marry for love, he escapes from the ball and into the forest. Seeing a flock of swans, he aims his crossbow at the creatures only to see that one of these creatures is in fact more woman than swan, simply dressed in white feathers. She reveals to him that she is the princess Odette and has been cursed by the sorcerer Von Rothbart so that she is swan by day and woman by night. Enamoured by her beauty, the two dance.
Quite simply, out of pity, he falls in love with Odette. As he swears his love, an act which would break the spell, Rothbart appears and the prince threatens to kill him. Odette stops him: if Rothbart is killed before the spell is broken, she is to remain a swan for eternity.
The Prince returns to his ball and Rothbart arrives in disguise with his daughter Odile who seduces the prince while pretending to be Odette. Thinking that she is Odette, he proclaims before everyone that he shall marry her but at this very moment, Rothbart shows him a magical vision of the real Odette and realises his mistake.
The prince returns to the lake and is forgiven by Odette. Rothbart appears appears and tries to separate the two lovers. The prince and Odette realise that because of his pledge to Odile, the spell can no longer be broken. Together, the two leap into Swan Lake and drown. Rothbart too dies for he no longer has power.
The prince fell for the wrong girl. They die.

A prince, heir to a great kingdom must declare a wife at a ball held in his honour on his birthday. In despair at not being able to marry for love, he escapes from the ball and into the forest. Seeing a flock of swans, he aims his crossbow at the creatures only to see that one of these creatures is in fact more woman than swan, simply dressed in white feathers. She reveals to him that she is the princess Odette and has been cursed by the sorcerer Von Rothbart so that she is swan by day and woman by night. Enamoured by her beauty, the two dance.
Quite simply, out of pity, he falls in love with Odette. As he swears his love, an act which would break the spell, Rothbart appears and the prince threatens to kill him. Odette stops him: if Rothbart is killed before the spell is broken, she is to remain a swan for eternity.
The Prince returns to his ball and Rothbart arrives in disguise with his daughter Odile who seduces the prince while pretending to be Odette. Thinking that she is Odette, he proclaims before everyone that he shall marry her but at this very moment, Rothbart shows him a magical vision of the real Odette and realises his mistake.
The prince returns to the lake and is forgiven by Odette. Rothbart appears appears and tries to separate the two lovers. The prince and Odette realise that because of his pledge to Odile, the spell can no longer be broken. Together, the two leap into Swan Lake and drown. Rothbart too dies for he no longer has power.
The prince fell for the wrong girl. They die.

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